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Collection of autographs, [ca. 1797 to ca. 1915]

Title: Collection of autographs, [ca. 1797 to ca. 1915]

Mostly autographs and signatures from disbound autograph albums; some separate autographs; and clipped signatures.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear foot.

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b2499519~S7 View

Letters from various correspondents, 1871-1940.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1871-1940.

Letters from variouscorrespondents to the Boston lawyer Boylston Beal.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00959/catalog View

Gannett, Ezra Stiles, 1801-1871. Sermons, ca.1830-1871

Title: Gannett, Ezra Stiles, 1801-1871. Sermons, ca.1830-1871.

Sermons of Ezra Stiles Gannett, pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston,Mass.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00375/catalog View

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887)

Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

Correspondence and manuscripts of American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian, Dorothea Dix.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00078/catalog View

Boston Association of Congregational Ministers. Secretarial letter : Boston, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1845 Nov. 4.

Title: Secretarial letter : Boston, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1845 Nov. 4.

Expressing best wishes upon his resignation from the Hollis Street Church.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270538780 View

Papers, 1824-1924.

Title: Papers, 1824-1924.

Papers of Ezra Stiles Gannett, pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston, Mass.including correspondence, printed sermons, and pamphlets.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00481/catalog View

Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles), 1801-1871. Autograph letter signed Ezra S. Gannett to: "Dear Sir [James William Kimball]" November 11, 1834.

Title: Autograph letter signed Ezra S. Gannett to: "Dear Sir [James William Kimball]" November 11, 1834.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70815317 View

Haynes, Watson G.,. Letters sent to Watson G. Haynes on the initiative to change regulations in the United States Navy, 1846-1952.

Title: Letters sent to Watson G. Haynes on the initiative to change regulations in the United States Navy, 1846-1952.

These papers are letters, statements, and petitions that are responses to Haynes' initiative to change the regulations of the United States Navy that permited corporal punishment (especially flogging) and allowed alcohol as part of the men's rations. Includes correspondents Henry Ward Beecher, Richard Henry Dana, Edward Everett, Ezra Stiles Gannett, Moses Grant, Horace Greeley, John Parker Hale, and Charles Sumner, among others.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612737589 View

Lamb family. Papers, 1814-1973, 1860-1920.

Title: Papers, 1814-1973, 1860-1920.

Papers include: Correspondence, report cards, travel journal, account book, poem, passports, receipts, circulars, estate papers, genealogies, wills, telegrams and newspaper clippings. The bulk of materials comprise letters from William Greenleaf Eliot to his sister, Hannah Eliot Lamb while William served in the Western Sanitary Commission. These letters document the Western Sanitary Commission's attempt to prevent sickness, such as typhus and pneumonia and its attempt to provide social and moral welfare for the soldiers, along with documenting hospital overcrowding, slavery, hospital ships and plantation schools in South Carolina. The letters also reflect Hannah's participation in the war through her continual shipments to William of packages of socks, bandages and supplies. Other correspondents in this series include: Thomas Lamb, Ezra Stiles Gannett, Benjamin Silliman, Dorothea Lynde Dix, and Noah Webster. A second series of correspondence (bulk, 1910-1914) between Horatio and his nephew, Eliot Tuckerman, primarily relates to the legal battle over the Joseph W. Revere and Rosanna D. Lamb Revere estate. Other correspondents in this series include: Owen Wister, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Knowles Paine and Walter Raymond Spalding. A third correspondence series includes letters from William G. Eliot and Hannah Eliot to Dorothea Lynde Dix (1875-1887). An inventory of Dorothea Lynde Dix's possessions upon her death including contents of drawers and closets, and listing of pamphlets and reports is included. The collection also contains genealogical material, original and reproduced, of the Duncan and Lamb families (1792-1973). Items include: correspondence, list of family members, coat of arms, photographs, genealogical charts, and articles on the families.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes ; 42 x 32 x 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41434073 View

Channing, William Ellery. Papers, 1803-1900.

Title: Channing, William Ellery. Papers, 1803-1900.

Papers of American theologian, author, Unitarian minister, and Harvardgraduate William Ellery Channing including material related to Channing's ministry atFederal Street Church, Boston (now known as the Arlington Street Church), plus generalcorrespondence (1817-1840), memorials and services for Channing, published sermonsand addresses, and pamphlets on Channing.

ArchivalResource: 2boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00480/catalog View

Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles), 1801-1871. Ezra Stiles Gannett papers, 1816-1918.

Title: Ezra Stiles Gannett papers, 1816-1918.

Personal correspondence and religious writings of Ezra Stiles Gannett, assistant and later pastor of the Federal (later Arlington) Street Church (1824-1871), and a leader in the Unitarian movement. Included are sixty-six volumes of diaries that cover Gannett's daily activities from 1821 to 1871. Correspondents include: William Ellery Channing, James Freeman Clarke, John Cordner, Calvin Lincoln, Samuel Joseph May and Henry Ware, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes, 72 volumes (some in boxes), and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6594008 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Letters, 1830-1856

Title: Letters of Jared Sparks 1830-1856

Letters discuss the 1781 Order of Battle from the American Revolution and Sparks suggests that it is a general arrangement, probably an order for encampment; mention editing the "Writings of George Washington" and the attacks on them; mention Lord Mahon's book, ["History of England," Vols. v-vi]; and mention an autograph manuscript by [John] Paul Jones and Chaumont. Sparks mentions his 1833 edition of Benjamin Franklin's "Familiar letters and miscellaneous papers"; mentions the "Diplomatic correspondence of the American Revolution"; refers to Andrews Norton's "A statement of reasons for not believing the doctrines of Trinitarians"; He receives from John Gilmary Shea a copy of his "Discovery and exploration of the valley of the Mississippi," and suggests that Shea now write about Jesuit missionaries in Canada and the West; mentions Pierre Charlevoix and Chrestien Le Clercq; invites Ezra S. Gannett to a meeting of the [Harvard] Committee for visiting the Divinity School. Alonzo Potter and Charles P. McIlvaine are also correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/archival/items/u1748822 View

Society for the Promotion of Christianity in India. Records, 1825-1849 (inclusive).

Title: Records, 1825-1849 (inclusive).

Record book, 1825-1840, financial records, and correspondence, 1826-1849, of an organization founded by a group of prominent Unitarians in Boston in 1825.

ArchivalResource: ca. .25 linear ft. (1 box, 1 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269368717 View

Society for Promoting Theological Education. Records, 1815-1977

Title: Records, 1815-1977 (inclusive)

Records, including minutes of meetings (1815-1943); secretarys' files (1924-1977); material on the establishment of the theological school, on the library, the building of Divinity Hall, students' memorial and responses (1829), faculty and curriculum matters (1828-1870), the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. (1874-1879). Financial records, including auditors' reports (1945-1972); personal history statements of students applying for scholarship financial assistance (1940 and later); printed matter and correspondence, particularly for the 19th century.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. (15 boxes).

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006038670203941/catalog View

Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

Title: Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

A long-established, artificial, still-growing collection consisting largely of printed pamphlets, with articles, reprints, some ephemera, typescripts, photocopied manuscript material, and one set of slides (to accompany a typescript item) also included. Some of the items within were bound during the 19th century, some are loose. Covering a broad range of topics relating to American (and particularly New England) history, life, and thought, the Topical Pamphlet Collection provides background and context for the more specifically Concord-related materials in the Concord Free Public Library Special Collections. The collection--not to be confused with the Concord Pamphlet Collection--includes <883> items, dating from <1741> to <1996>. Series I (Historical Topics) includes <352> items dating between <1741> and <1996>, Series II (Individuals, As Author or Subject) <300> items between <1761> and <1963>, Series III (Massachusetts Towns--History, Anniversaries, Description, etc.) <127> items between <1748> and <1991>, and Series IV (Pamphlet Materials on Multiple Topics, Organized by Form) <104> items between <1752> and <1940>. Some of the bound volumes include the occasional out-of-scope pamphlet. Moreover, there is some topical overlap of material in different subseries.

ArchivalResource: <883 > items<47 > containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694087719 View